Georgia Rule starring Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, and Dermot Mulroney. The story is about Lindsay’s character, Rachel. She’s sent to live with her grandmother for the summer in hopes that she’ll improve her lifestyle and not be such a spoiled little rich kid. Sounds fun, right? It comes out that her step father sexually abused her, and there’s a lot of “whether or not to believe Rachel” going around.

The title of the movie is Georgia Rule, which comes from something her grandmother Georgia says, for example you can’t do xxx because it’s Georgia Rule. She lives her life by the clock. Dinner is at 6:00 pm. If you’re late you don’t eat. Same with breakfast and lunch. When you’re done eating you wash your dish.

The humor happens because Rachel is a city girl dropped right in the middle of small town nowhere USA. She’s definitely something different than what the town is used to. There are a lot of serious issues at hand in terms of teenage girls and sexuality. She’s just looking for someone to say, “No.” And that someone finally comes along and proves to her that people can care without physical abuse.

There’s a lot going on in this movie all at once. Rachel dealing with being abused and trying to find her way in the world. Lily, her mother, dealing with alcoholism and her pig of a husband. Georgia, just wanting her family to be whole. And then there are side characters. At times it’s almost too much and I can’t help but wonder how many parts they cut out of this movie to make it fit into a standard time line. It feels like it’s missing too much, and some things are hurried, and some things just plain don’t make sense. I enjoyed the movie, but I’m sure it could have been much better with maybe 20 - 30 more minutes of story to iron out some wrinkles. I hate it when they rush and chop up movies.

When three generations of women collide, it isn’t always pretty. In Georgia Rule, Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls) stars as Rachel, a wild child whose mother Lilly (Felicity Huffman, Desperate Housewives) ships her off to Idaho to be tamed by Georgia (Jane Fonda, On Golden Pond)–Lilly’s own cantankerous mom. There, 17-year-old Rachel shocks the conservative community with her short shorts, eager sexuality (which she plies on everyone from 12-year-old boys to unsophisticated, but hot, Mormon neighbors), and her tales of possible sexual abuse at the hands of her somewhat slimy stepfather (Cary Elwes, The Princess Bride).